# What's awakening about? Very generically I'd explain it as a different operating mode embedded within the same hardware, same body same brain but with training you can access a different way of relating to yourself and the world, which is less painful and more compassionate. If asked what it's actually like I'd probably say something like a more global rather than piecemeal way of relating. All throughout life there are unconscious patterns we learned, and some of them relate to the mechanisms through which we perceive the world - which contributes to the sense that there is a separate perceiver on one end, and the perceived object on the other. This separation does not need to be there in the first place (though if you're of a scientific bent you'd probably comment there must be a survival value in it, which is correct) and it contributes to a lot of suffering in the world. Maybe my unique take is that there is no unique take. I'm not trying to proselytize or flip anyone into it. I'll present what I know, if people like it and wish to know more I will tell them more based on their specific interest or needs. If not, it stops there. *Why would anyone be attached to awakening another?*